Python Macros

Jacek Generowicz jacek.generowicz at cern.ch
Wed Oct 6 17:15:09 EDT 2004


On 6 Oct 2004, at 17:12, Josiah Carlson wrote:

>
> On 06 Oct 2004 09:45:02 +0200
> Jacek Generowicz <jacek.generowicz at cern.ch> wrote:
>
>>
>> Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at uci.edu> writes:
>>
>>> On the other hand, no one in the Python world really describes
>>> instance.method() as passing a message to 'instance' with the value 
>>> of
>>> 'method'.
>>
>> This is not true.
>>
>> Proof by counterexample:  I sometimes do.
>
> All right, then I will make the claim that it is not Pythonic to do so,
> because I have never heard Guido do such a thing.

Aaaah, proof by ignorance: I am not aware of it, therefore it isn't so. 
:-)

BTW, I _really_ meant the :-) in the previous post. There is really no 
(serious) point in taking this any further, is there ?




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